Web Development Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Web Development
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Web Development skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 72 111
Rank change year-on-year -47 +39 +36
Contract jobs citing Web Development 2 43 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.11% 2.25% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 2.76% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 31 4
10th Percentile - £425 £264
25th Percentile £675 £500 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £562 £438
Median % change year-on-year +24.67% +28.34% -12.50%
75th Percentile £725 £675 £450
90th Percentile - £765 -
England median daily rate £513 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +2.65% -13.04% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.16
25th Percentile - - £17.22
Median hourly rate - - £17.38
75th Percentile - - £17.47
90th Percentile - - £17.49
England median hourly rate £47.13 £42.50 £17.34
% change year-on-year +10.89% +145.10% -76.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Web Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,618 1,560 1,776
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.75% 81.76% 85.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 995 1,188
10th Percentile £250 £252 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £674 £725 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 39 50
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.66 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.25 £20.21
Median hourly rate £24.34 £26.13 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% -5.00% +52.78%
75th Percentile £35.00 £40.25 £43.38
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.65 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +53.98%

Web Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Web Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Web Development in the West Midlands

Web Development
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Web Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Web Development

Web Development
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Web Development.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Web Development

Web Development
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Development within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warwickshire -6 1 - - 6
Birmingham -32 1 £700 +23.46% 7
Web Development
England

Web Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (50.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Asana
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Web Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Web Project Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) IT Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (50.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore